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Brexit’s effect on devolution will force rethink

Kenny Farquharson

It is hard to imagine a power-sharing relationship between May and Sturgeon — Northern Ireland is leagues ahead

A popular TV advertisement in the 1990s showed a young girl being asked a tricky question by her sister. “Sophie, who do you like best: Daddy or chips?” Sophie spends the rest of the day agonising over this dilemma. On sitting down to her tea, she spears a delicious-looking chip with her fork, only for her father to pinch it. Her mind is made up. “Chips,” she says.

I will resist the temptation to devote the rest of this column to a polemic on the undervaluing of dads, to how our society, from primary schools to the NHS, prioritises motherhood over fatherhood. Instead I am going to write about Brexit and Northern Ireland, with some observations relevant to us here in Scotland.